Ganesh Ananthanarayanan

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Bio: Ganesh Ananthanarayanan is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft. His research interests are broadly in systems & networking, with recent focus on live video analytics, cloud computing & large scale data analytics systems, and Internet performance. He has published over 30 papers in systems & networking conferences such as USENIX OSDI, ACM SIGCOMM and USENIX NSDI, which have been recognized with the Best Paper Award at ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2020, CSAW 2020 Applied Research Competition Award (runner-up), ACM MobiSys 2019 Best Demo Award (runner-up), and highest-rated paper at ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2018. His work on “Video Analytics for Vision Zero” on analyzing traffic camera feeds won the Institute of Transportation Engineers 2017 Achievement Award as well as the “Safer Cities, Safer People” US Department of Transportation Award. He has collaborated with and shipped technology to Microsoft’s cloud and online products like the Azure Cloud, Cosmos (Microsoft’s big data system), Azure Live Video Analytics, and Skype. He was a founding member of the ACM Future of Computing Academy. Prior to joining Microsoft Research, he completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in Dec 2013, where he was also a recipient of the UC Berkeley Regents Fellowship, and prior to his Ph.D., he was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India.

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Favorite Publications:
1) “Visor: Privacy-Preserving Video Analytics as a Cloud Service“, Rishabh Poddar, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Srinath Setty, Stavros Volos, Raluca Ada Popa, USENIX Security, May 2020
2) “Focus: Querying Large Video Datasets with Low Latency and Low Cost“, Kevin Hsieh, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Peter Bodík, Shivaram Venkataraman, Victor Bahl, Matthai Philipose, Phillip B. Gibbons, Onur Mutlu, USENIX OSDI, Oct 2018
3) “Low Latency Geo-distributed Data Analytics“, Qifan Pu, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Peter Bodík, Srikanth Kandula, Aditya Akella, Victor Bahl, Ion Stoica, ACM SIGCOMM, Aug 2015
4) “PACMan: Coordinated Memory Caching for Parallel Jobs“, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Ali Ghodsi, Andrew Wang, Dhruba Borthakur, Srikanth Kandula, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, USENIX NSDI, Apr 2012
5) “Disk-Locality in Datacenter Computing Considered Irrelevant“, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Ali Ghodsi, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, USENIX HotOS, May 2011